Repotage in the newspaper GD May 25, 2018
Infectious joy and charm
When we open “Our heart for others, our hearts beat in time,” sing the young actors in Kulturhjerte, in the closing scene during the performance “The hunt for the cultural heart” in Kulturhuset Banken on Friday morning. In just a few words, they explain what lies behind the somewhat mysterious term “cultural heart”.
Repotage from the newspaper GD June 8, 2017
– It’s a very effective integration process
21 Children from seven nations. Behind the scenes and in the department of direction, costumes and choreography: parents and professional artists from a total of eight nations.
Repotage from NRK June 7, 2017
– “Cultural heart” has changed our lives
Our goal is to make newcomers to Lillehammer feel welcome,” says Haverstadløkken. I hope that those who participated in “Kulturhjerte” think that they were just that, when they look back on this time ten years from now.
HeArtBox – creative powerhouse in the heart of the city
Kulturhjerte has started work on furnishing HeArtBox - a creative powerhouse for children and young adults from all over Lillehammer and the world. The project is enormous in both scope and cost - and is only possible because we are already a forward-thinking team of...
Kulturhjerte makes music video
GD was behind the scenes when we made the music video before Christmas. GD/Kari Utgaard: It all started in 2016. Five committed adults wanted to create a meeting place for everyday integration. They were convinced that the best method was to make theater together....
Norwegian Amateur Theatre Association: An adventurous million for Kulturhjerte
It sounds like a fairy tale: Recently came the news that the Ministry of Culture is allocating NOK 1 million to "Kulturhjerte" in Lillehammer over the revised state budget. This allows them to move forward with all their plans and focus on development and good...
Ready for a new show
Kulturhjerte's 25 young Smålanders are soon ready for a new performance. Since October, they have been working every week on the performance that will be shown in Maihaugsalen in Lillehammer during the Norwegian Literature Festival. This year, they have explored the...
YUTOLAND – a true story fairy tale
Yutoland shows how an ordinary, safe and carefree life can quickly be transformed, and at the same time how much strength and power is mobilized when life is in danger. The book is written as a fantasy to simplify the communication of complex emotions. A refugee child...
KS: Meeting place for the whole world in the heart of Lillehammer
Read about Kulturhjerte in KS's magazine Kommunespeilet: Kulturhjerte is a meeting place and development arena for 33 children and young people in Lillehammer - both newly settled refugees and children born in Norway. Together they create a theater performance based...
Four young people from Kulturhjerte spoke for the Minister of Culture.
On Friday, a new support scheme for inclusion in cultural life was presented by the Minister of Culture. Kulturhjerte in Lillehammer was invited to Oslo to present its work, as a good example of what the Minister of Culture wants to see more of in Norway in the...
Kulturhjerte will collaborate with the Norwegian Literature Festival.
In May 2021, Kulturhjerte will celebrate its fifth anniversary, and the setting for the performance will be the Norwegian Festival of Literature itself. Read the full story in GD here.
Review: Love, complications and rock’n’roll.
This production of Grease doesn't really need any other review than the list of all the more than one hundred performers. That list shows the enormous effort that goes into it.GD's reviewer Live Sætre after the premiere of Kulturhjerte's version of Grease. Read the...
Director Carol Kvande hit by serious illness before the premiere.
A week after the doctors diagnosed meningitis, she has decided to finish the race as director of the big production "Grease" in Maihaugsalen. Saturday is the premiere. Read more in GD here.
Sold out the entire Maihaugsalen as soon as the tickets were posted.
No sooner had the roles been cast and the tickets for the performance in February gone on sale than local youth in Lillehammer had sold out Maihaugsalen. Now they are planning an extra performance. Read the full story in GD here.
Cultural heart with musical initiative. Nå blir det audition på “Grease”.
For the major initiative in Maihaugsalen, Kulturhjerte will collaborate with the new private upper secondary school Create in Lillehammer, which started recently with courses in music, dance and drama. With the "Grease" production in February, Kulturhjerte is...
Read GD’s review of our third performance “THIS IS ME”.
Their pride shines when they stand on stage and show what they have brought from home - from their parents' culture, says GD reviewer Live Sætre. Read GD's review here.
See the pictures from the performance “This is me”
See GD's photos from the performance at Kulturhuset Banken on the 14th. June 2019. Click here to see the slideshow.
Kulturhjerte creates more than just music.
I started here at the beginning of the year and I really enjoy it. This has become like a family to me," says Adnan Alkhateeb. Read more on GD's website.
